Re: Test package for testing dgit upload infrastructure

2014-11-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes (Re: Test package for testing dgit upload infrastructure): Assuming the package never reaches (or never intend to reach) testing, I believe it falls outside our jurisdiction to decide whether such a package should be allowed in unstable/on our infrastructure. FYI, I've

Test package for testing dgit upload infrastructure

2014-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
dgit has an extensive regression test suite for its own functionality, including facades which emulate or stand in for various important archive infrastructure. But when doing work on dgit's support infrastructure itself (eg the dgit-repos VM, archive database, etc.), and when working on the

Re: Test package for testing dgit upload infrastructure

2014-10-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-29 17:57, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] I therefore propose to upload a test package. That is, a package whose only purpose is infrastructure testing. Its contents aren't very important (but it would obviously be dfsg-free). Such a package should probably be normally uploaded to

Re: Test package for testing dgit upload infrastructure

2014-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: Is there already a test package name I can use for this purpose ? There currently isn't, at least as far the BTS is concerned. Because I think your major plan is to test other parts of the infrastructure, I think something under the dgit-*; namespace would